... I always assumed season 3 to be the bad one.
I personally actually liked the first two, Enterprise's start seasons are better than TNG's, imho.
Am I the only one?
I don't remember season 3 being better or worse, though I did roll my eyes pretty hard when they decided to go to the Land of Space Nonsense where Mysteries Abound, which I think was season 3.
Hard to say which series had the rougher start, IMO. I can get onboard with the TOS-ish cornball nature of ENT, and I like it for what it is, but TNG found its footing and matured, and I don't feel like ENT ever pulled that off so it just kinda... stayed the same.
ENT be divisive like that. Personally I rank S3 as the best of ENT and first 2 seasons is them trying to “just do what worked before” but not really succeeding.
I think what I dislike the most about early ENT (besides decontamination) is how they seemed to just throw away all the guest stars. Quantum leap costar especially was a travesty of wasted potential.
They fleshed out the culture of the "Predators" and made them a voyager villain. The "hunt is all" race.
It was an interesting idea, but those 2 episodes were a pretty odd premise. If holodeck technology was so revoluntary for their culture, they should have worked to incorporate it into their ships, not build a huge holodeck simulation on voyager and enslaved its crew.
I think they were fun too, but just strange in a clearly "bottle episodes" kind of way.
It was definitely one of those holodeck adventure stories. I was disappointed that the Hirogen didn't show up as much in the later seasons (the extent of their communications relay network suggested that they used to have a vast territory), although they did come back to the fallout of "The Killing Game" in Season 7's "Flesh and Blood".
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 34 pts · 321d
... I always assumed season 3 to be the bad one.
I personally actually liked the first two, Enterprise's start seasons are better than TNG's, imho.
Am I the only one?
INeedANewUserName@piefed.social · 16 pts · 321d
I remember the "fan service" being wildly divisive / largely looked down upon at the time of release.
thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 321d
I don't remember season 3 being better or worse, though I did roll my eyes pretty hard when they decided to go to the Land of Space Nonsense where Mysteries Abound, which I think was season 3.
Hard to say which series had the rougher start, IMO. I can get onboard with the TOS-ish cornball nature of ENT, and I like it for what it is, but TNG found its footing and matured, and I don't feel like ENT ever pulled that off so it just kinda... stayed the same.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 321d
I agree. I enjoyed the first 2 but the third season was quite bad.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website · 3 pts · 321d
ENT be divisive like that. Personally I rank S3 as the best of ENT and first 2 seasons is them trying to “just do what worked before” but not really succeeding.
I think what I dislike the most about early ENT (besides decontamination) is how they seemed to just throw away all the guest stars. Quantum leap costar especially was a travesty of wasted potential.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
I unpopularly dislike Ent and DS9 once they move to the grim war story arcs.
Australis13@fedia.io · 3 pts · 321d
I would agree that Enterprise's first season was generally better than TNG's, but I mostly enjoyed Season 3 of Enterprise.
Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 321d
I don’t remember alien nazi episodes. In TNG?
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 321d
nazis, nazis everywhere. tng is one of the few without them, actually :D
thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 321d
ENT
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 6 pts · 321d
The reptiloid nazi twofer (Voyager) was really bad. Does every Star Trek series have one? I don't remember anything like that in TNG.
Australis13@fedia.io · 8 pts · 321d
Really? I quite enjoyed "The Killing Game"... The Hirogen made an interesting addition to the series.
rainwall@piefed.social · 4 pts · 320d
They fleshed out the culture of the "Predators" and made them a voyager villain. The "hunt is all" race.
It was an interesting idea, but those 2 episodes were a pretty odd premise. If holodeck technology was so revoluntary for their culture, they should have worked to incorporate it into their ships, not build a huge holodeck simulation on voyager and enslaved its crew.
I think they were fun too, but just strange in a clearly "bottle episodes" kind of way.
Australis13@fedia.io · 1 pts · 320d
It was definitely one of those holodeck adventure stories. I was disappointed that the Hirogen didn't show up as much in the later seasons (the extent of their communications relay network suggested that they used to have a vast territory), although they did come back to the fallout of "The Killing Game" in Season 7's "Flesh and Blood".
fireweed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
Enterprise? No, no, no ... DS9.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 321d
Me and TNG. I could never get into it and couldn’t slog through the first few seasons to get to anything decent.
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 321d
Shame. Season 3 has some real bangers.
I use seriesgraph to get to the good stuff in things like old Top Gear episodes.